You can either practice being right or practice being kind.
ANNE LAMOTTChurches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, “I hate you, God.” That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you’ve had in months.
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.
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Expectations are resentments under construction.
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And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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No is a complete sentence.
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
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Laughter is carbonated holiness.
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And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.
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Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
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A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
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This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
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When faced with a crisis, do three things: breathe, pray and be kind.
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